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AlunD
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China to auction Olympics condoms

When the Olympics hosted by Beijing ended, a collector snapped up the 5,000 condoms left over from the 100,000 distributed free to athletes


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8345961.stm

Made me chuckle anyway :D

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Brilliant, but do they not think they're overdoing it with the numbers ordered in the first instance? 100k? :shock:

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Brilliant, but do they not think they're overdoing it with the numbers ordered in the first instance? 100k? :shock:


5000 were left... that means 95000 were used! That's not overdoing it >.<
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pcernie wrote:
Brilliant, but do they not think they're overdoing it with the numbers ordered in the first instance? 100k? :shock:


5000 were left... that means 95000 were used! That's not overdoing it >.<


Well, it says they were 'distributed', doesn't mean they were actually used. And it begs the question, once you supply the athletes, just who else is getting them? The builders? ;)

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